Theories Quotes · Page 5

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

— Izaak Walton

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

— Mary Leakey

“Gut?” “General Unified Theory.” Kohler quipped. “The theory of everything.”

— Dan Brown

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

— Charley Lau

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

— August Bier

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

— Rem Koolhaas

“#Science is not carved on the tablets of marble. Theories have arisen, worked, challenged, and superseded.”

— Brian Silver

Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one…

— Brian Schmidt

I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really…

— Doug Stanhope

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than…

— Marvin Harris

There are two theories. There's one theory that Barack Obama wants to destroy the country and create a socialistic country. There is…

— Donald Trump

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations,…

— Derek Bok

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at…

— David Deutsch

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated…

— Thomas Sowell

Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in…

— Bradley A. Smith

Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on…

— Claude Bernard

“A defense [of religion] is needed because none has been forthcoming. The discussion has been ceded to men who regard religious belief…

— David Berlinski

“The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others.…

— Ray Bradbury

Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths…

— William James

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have…

— Muhammad Yunus

Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no…

— Isaac D'Israeli

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said…

— E. L. Doctorow

No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame.…

— Paul Feyerabend

“Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories.”

— Nicki Elson

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

— Mark Twain

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

— Paul Feyerabend

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.

— Douglas Lain

“all theories are oversimplifications, or at least lead to oversimplification.”

— Neil Postman

I have thoughts therefore I have questions, that's why I decline to pledge allegiance.

— Raghib Clitso

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

— Hosea Ballou

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

— Jason Ritter

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

— Richard Holbrooke

“Questions married other questions and had theories for children.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

— Richard P. Feynman

One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.

— Oprah Winfrey

Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest.

— Robert Mankoff

The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.

— Jack Nicholson